Burma Campaign UK
Willis Ceases Cover to Burma, Pressure Mounts on Insurers Operating in Burma The Burma Campaign UK welcomes the undertaking by the world’s third largest insurance broker to end their involvement in Burma. The decision follows the company being placed on Burma Campaign’s ‘Dirty List’ in 2004 and the creation of an advisory panel of insurance …
The Burma Campaign UK has been informed by DHL’s parent company, Deutsche Post, that DHL will end its joint venture with Burma’s military dictatorship. DHL’s current contract with the regime expires at the end of 2006, and the Burma Campaign UK had called on the company to use this opportunity to cut its ties with …
As France prepares to celebrate Bastille Day on Thursday, 134 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on French oil giant TOTAL Oil to pull out of Burma. TOTAL Oil – the fourth largest oil company in the UK – is the largest European investor in Burma. At the same time, Burmese communities …
Aon Corporation, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, has informed the Burma Campaign UK it is terminating all business in Burma. Aon featured on the ‘Dirty List’ of companies directly or indirectly funding the regime in Burma, which is published by the Burma Campaign UK. The company will now be removed from …
On Monday 21st February the Burma Campaign UK publishes a hard-hitting new report exposing how oil giant TOTAL plays a crucial role in funding and protecting Burma’s brutal military dictatorship. The report Totalitarian Oil – TOTAL Oil: Fuelling the oppression in Burma, coincides with the launch of a global campaign against the company, supported by 40 …
SUPPORT GROWS FOR BURMA INVESTMENT BAN The Burma Campaign UK is welcoming cross-party support for its campaign to persuade companies not to invest in Burma. Speaking in a debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday, shadow foreign minister Richard Spring MP stated: “We welcome BAT’s decision last year, and Premier Oil’s decision before that, …
CAMPAIGN SUCCESS IN LESS THAN 1 YEAR The Burma Campaign UK and Federation of Trade Unions (Burma) are celebrating today’s news that British American Tobacco (BAT) is to pull out of Burma. The two organisations launched a global campaign to get BAT out of Burma in November last year. BAT announced today that they have …
The Burma Campaign UK today publishes an updated version of its ‘Dirty List’ of companies whose operations are directly or indirectly helping to finance the military dictatorship in Burma. Advertising giant WPP, Ernst & Young, P&O Cruises, Deutsche Post, and Hutchison Whampoa subsidiaries Superdrug and 3 Mobile have all been added to the Burma Campaign’s …
The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed British government calls for British American Tobacco (BAT) to pull out of Burma. Foreign Office Minister, Mike O’Brien in a meeting today with Martin Broughton, Chairman of British American Tobacco, asked BAT to withdraw their investment from Burma. Mr Broughton agreed to consider the request and to give a …
The Burma Campaign UK today publishes a ‘Dirty List’ of companies whose operations are directly or indirectly helping to finance the military dictatorship in Burma. The Dirty List includes well known companies such as British American Tobacco (BAT), advertising giant Cordiant Communications, PwC, Suzuki, Orient Express, Kookai, Lonely Planet, DHL and Daewoo. The list targets …